Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger has quickly emerged as one of the most fascinating entries in the MCU’s rogues gallery, a group of characters who—with a few notable exceptions—had mostly previously been home to flatly drawn C-listers like Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Ronan The Accuser and whatever Corey Stoll’s deal in …

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp…

In the weeks since its release, Black Panther has set or broken all kinds of records. Ryan Coogler’s epic superhero film is still perched atop the box office, raking in $600 million domestic and more than $1 billion worldwide. So not only is it poised to bust up The Avengers’ record, but by spending five consecutive…

Thanks to the obsession with blockbusters that has preoccupied major studios for the past 40 years or so, there have been many weekends where two heavily promoted tentpole films—sometimes even from the same studio—have occupied the top two slots at the domestic box office. This past weekend, though, marked the first…

Time and again, Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler have proved to be a winning duo—the actor and director are currently celebrating the runaway success of Black Panther, the third film they’ve made together. There’s no resting on laurels here, though, as Variety reports Coogler and Jordan are teaming up once more on…

The Black Panther phenomenon continues to charge through the box office like a legion of weaponized rhinoceroses. Witness this little tidbit, dropped in a glowing THR report about the film’s $242 million domestic ($426.6 million international) Presidents’ Day haul—the second-biggest four-day total of all time after …

It’s taken a decade and 18 films, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally produced a superhero movie that feels like it was ripped from the pages of a comic book. Ditching the MCU’s familiar roster of heroes (they don’t get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film formula, Ryan…

Eagle-eyed viewers lucky enough to have seen Black Panther already—we’re still waiting for a preview screening here in Chicago—may have noticed a shout-out to Atlanta multi-hyphenates Donald and Stephen Glover in the end credits of Ryan Coogler’s soon-to-be-blockbuster film. Collider’s Steve Weintraub was one of them,…

Black Panther ascends to the throne on February 16, when director Ryan Coogler will make his Afrofuturist-inspired contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther is the first spin-off for the Marvel character, but as with all things in the MCU, he’s already carrying a lot of baggage. So The A.V. Club …

Marvel pulls back the curtain on some of the mystery surrounding Wakanda, the fictional nation and home to Black Panther, in this new trailer. The first preview effectively teased the conflict between T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), as well as gave us glimpses at the magnificent…

A lot of Captain America: Civil Warinvolved laying the groundwork for the Black Panther movie, and during its Comic-Con panel today, Marvel unsurprisingly revealed that Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther will actually take place just after the events of Civil War—meaning T’Challa’s father has just been killed and Bucky…

Ever since Chadwick Boseman first bared his claws inCaptain America: Civil War, we’ve been dying to see and learn more about T’Challa (not to mention the Dora Milaje). The first Black Panther trailer was a good start, as it featured Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong‘o in bodyguard mode, and the poster (pictured above)…

Evidently, Marvel’s Black Panther is a ‘90s kid, and Ryan Coogler’s upcoming movie about him will feature a flashback to his time living in California in the ‘90s. That’s according to the East Bay Times(via /Film), which reports that a retro-style Bay Area AC Transit bus is being built for a sequence in the film…

Though it seems like it’s been in the works for a long time and should probably be in theaters soon, Marvel’s Black Panther movieis still over a year off. So, with all of that extra time, the studio might as well keep tossing more good actors into this thing until every ancillary character is played by someone you…

It seems like every time a little more information about Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther dribbles out, it gets a little harder to wait for its July 2018 release. And that’s certainly the case today, as we learn that Winston Duke will be joining the cast as the evil master warrior M’Baku, otherwise known as Man-Ape, …

Earlier this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences responded to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign with a series of wide-sweeping promises, intended to improve the representation of minority actors, writers, and directors in its future nominations, as well as the makeup of the committee that determines those…